Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Regulatory clocksHIPAA✓ HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline
HHS OCRConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
3,070
Data types
3
PHI · Health (basic) · PII
Jurisdictions
1
IN
Linked filings
1
all HHS OCR
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Lincoln National Corporation (d/b/a Lincoln Financial), a health plan based in Indiana, reported a breach affecting 3,070 individuals. The incident involved unauthorized access to or disclosure of information stored on paper or films. No business associate was involved.
Affected (this filing): 3,070
HHS notified
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.